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Henry Duncan Spens Goodsir plaque

King William Island, NU, Canada

This plaque is to commemorate and honor Henry "Harry" Duncan Spens Goodsir LRCSE born in Anstruther-Easter, Fife, Scotland on 3 November 1819. Harry Goodsir was a medical doctor, marine zoologist and Assistant Surgeon on HMS Erebus and died here during the Franklin Expedition c. 1847. "Part of all n

oble things that shall be done. Part of the royal record of the sea." from "The Death of Sir John Franklin" by Algernon C. Swinburne, 1860.

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